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A repetitive act performed by an individual is a

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Habit

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In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

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from time to time at a given place

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In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of ________ groups

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Large heterogeneous

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Folk cultures are spread primarily by

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Relocation diffusion

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Understand the effects of globalization and modern communications on social customs

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Increased the similarity of social customs in different locations

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As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from

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Familiar events in daily life

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Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to

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Tell a story about lifecycle events, work or national disasters

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Cultural diversity is promoted by

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The relative isolation of a group from others

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The choice of clothing in western countries and strongly influenced by

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Occupation, knowledge of fashion elsewhere and the level of income

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Terroir refers to

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The sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

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Taboo

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The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as less subject to modification then

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The clothing and weapons

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13
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The most important house style in the United States since the 1960s is known as

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Neo-eclectic

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The trend of globalization has threatened ______ culture more than _____ culture

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Folk; pop

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Some features of US material culture such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels promote

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A uniform landscape

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People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of the strong desire to

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Preserve unique customs

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And they have more contact with popular culture, woman in less developed countries are more likely to

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Gain more opportunities outside the home

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Diffusion of popular culture can adversely impact environmental quality in what two ways?

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Depletion of scarce resources in pollution

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A lingua franca is

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A language that is mutually understood by people who have a different native language

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A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a

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Language branch

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The two largest language families in the world are

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Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

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The language family encompassing the languages of the People’s Republic of China is

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Sino-Tibetan

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The main Romance languages are

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Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, French

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24
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The language spoken by soldiers station throughout the Roman Empire was known as

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Vulgar Latin

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25
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The most widely spoken language in Brazil is

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Portuguese

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26
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Russian is a part of what language branch?

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Balto Slavic

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According to Colin Renfrew’s research, Indo-European languages defused across Europe alongside the diffusion of

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Agriculture

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According to the maps and diagrams in this chapter, England was invaded by tribes from

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Germanic-speaking areas

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A literary tradition is

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The written form of a language

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An isogloss is

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A boundary between language regions

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Comparing contrast British and American English

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Alphabet such as…

  • different word spelling’s (example color vs colour)
  • different pronunciation (example US= VITE-a-min, UK= VIT-a-min)
  • different vocabulary for some words (example Chips in US= Lays, UK= fries)
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A form of the language spoken in a local area is a

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Dialect

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A creolized language is

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages

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A pidgin language

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Has no native speakers

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35
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The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of

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Iceland’s relative isolation from other places

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36
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The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is

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Mandarin

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37
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Chinese is traditionally written in the form of

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Ideograms

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38
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The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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Thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups

39
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____________ is to Canada as _________ is to the US

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French; Spanish

40
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The English language is a “second” or “third” language in many regions where it is used as a

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Lingua Franca

41
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Which statement best describes the use of English on the Internet

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English has become less dominant but is still the leading Internet language

42
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Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

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Religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

43
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Animists believe that

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Inanimate objects and natural events have spirits

44
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The belief in the existence of only one God is

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Monotheism

45
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When geographers study the sites where religions originated as well as the processes by which those religions diffused to other locations, they’re focusing on the

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Spatial connections in religion

46
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The world’s largest ethnic religion is

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Hinduism

47
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Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?

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Having a Roman Catholic majority

48
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The maps in the chapter indicate that the Eastern Orthodoxy is a branch of the Christianity prevalent in

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Russia

49
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A relatively small group that is broken away from it established church is a

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Sect

50
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The world’s largest universalizing religion is

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Christianity

51
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Lutheranism is an example of a Christian

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Denomination

52
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The dominant branch of Islam is

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Sunni

53
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This map indicates that Baptists are clustered in the _________ United States

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Southern

54
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Judaism is not a

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Universalizing religion

55
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An ethnic religion appeals mostly to

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One group of people in one place

56
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Which religions, including major branches, trace their origin to Abraham?

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Christianity, Islam (Sunni and Shia)

57
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What is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who founded it?

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Islam

58
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Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

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Remains concentrated in one area of the world

59
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Identify characteristics of universalizing religions

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Several priests travel across the world to establish missions on remote islands

60
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Identify the characteristics of ethnic religions

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The religious calendar is based largely on seasonal changes in a particular region

61
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Christianity first diffused from its hearth through ______ diffusion

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Relocation

62
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Roman Catholics are clustered in the US Southwest primarily because of the migration of

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Roman Catholics from Latin America

63
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Some of the violence linked to religion in Israel and Palestine is also linked to

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Ethnic groups, resources and disputes over control of land

64
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Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than universalizing religion, partly because it’s rituals derive from

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Agricultural cycle in Israel

65
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Protestants in Ireland are

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Highly clustered in one part of the island

66
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Jerusalem’s geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

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Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are built on top of one another

67
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The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city where ______ were forced to live

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Jews

68
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The exiled spiritual leader of the Tibet is the

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Dalai Lama

69
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For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been

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Dispersed around the world

70
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It is reasonable to hypothesize that during the Mexican-American war when some Irish soldiers deserted from the US Army to join the Mexican army instead, most were at least partly motivated by the feelings of loyalty towards fellow…

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Roman Catholics

71
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Given the Soviet Union’s policies toward religion discussed in this chapter, a historian could hypothesize that in the United States, Cold War opposition to the Soviet Union was accompanied by the heightened emphasis on

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Religion as a weapon against “Godless communism”

72
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Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the 1,500 years?

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Islam

73
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Apartheid- What? Where? When?

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What- systems of racial segregation in South Africa

Where- South Africa

When- 1948 to 1998

74
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Ethnicity is important because it reinforces _________ in the face of globalization culture

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Diversity

75
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The most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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Latinos and Hispanics

76
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The second most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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African-Americans

77
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The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from

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China

78
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The United States Census Bureau recognizes which distinct races?

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White, American Indian, Alaskan native, native Hawaiian, pacific islanders, Black/African-American, Asian, Hispanic and Latino

79
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Understand the role of “separate but equal” doctrine and “Jim Crow” laws in United States history.

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“Separate but equal” – Established that African-Americans could be kept in separate but equal facilities

“Jim Crow”- separates blacks and whites in public

80
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Ethnic identity for US descendants of European immigrants is primarily preserve through

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Religion and food

81
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A nationality is

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A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition

82
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Identify an example of a nationality.

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Group of Cherokee Indians living on a reservation

83
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Why is Denmark a good example of nation-state?

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Nearly all of them speak Danish and live in Denmark

84
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Identify centripetal forces in the United States.

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Strong national identity, strong naison d’etre- reason for existence

85
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When a US politician attempts to appeal to the widest number of voters, she or he probably appeals to the concept of shared

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Nationality

86
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Most of the conflict in Africa is a result of colonial boundaries that

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Colonial boundaries in the midst of numerous ethnic and national groups

87
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Balkanization refers to

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Breakdown of state due to conflicts among nationalities

88
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The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s was caused mainly by

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Rivalries among nationalities

89
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The most important centripetal force in Yugoslavia before the break up was the

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Common economic interests

90
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As Sudan’s religion-based Civil War was run winding down, an ethnic war erupted in the region of

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Darfur

91
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The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called

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Ethnic cleansing

92
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The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

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Custom

93
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Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the US?

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West

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